Abstract
This study was based on the perspectives of tourists, with data obtained through a questionnaire survey of users of the Kaiyuan Temple Scenic Area in Quanzhou City, Fujian Province, China. Through statistical evaluation and principal component analysis, the data collected from 351 questionnaires were analyzed, and five common factors affecting tourists’ perceptions were obtained: spatial structure, functional structure, utility plants, heritage characteristics and sensory characteristics. Through data analysis and research, the following conclusions were drawn: (1) most tourists have high expectations in terms of the overall layout of the temple garden plant landscape; (2) they like eye-catching and interesting plants and comfortable spaces for recreation and leisure; (3) they pay attention to the health-giving properties of plants; (4) tourists like it when the temple garden plant landscape includes a diverse range of plant forms while maintaining distinctive regional characteristics; and (5) tourists find bright flowers and aromatic plants relaxing and mood-enhancing, functioning to promote interaction between the temple landscape and tourists. The findings of the study can therefore be used as theoretical guidance for the design of urban temple garden plant landscape construction that meets the needs of tourists.
Highlights
As an important part of the urban green-space system, urban temple gardens are a form of non-renewable wealth, an inheritance of special historic value
Compared with mountain and forest temple gardens, urban temple gardens are closer to home and convenient to use, and they have become one of the most frequently used kinds of urban green spaces in the daily life of residents and tourists [1]; places that are conducive to daily leisure activities, faith activities and improvement of the urban ecological environment
The second feature associated with humanized plant landscapes is the practice of evaluating the quality of urban temple landscapes within the environment [2]
Summary
As an important part of the urban green-space system, urban temple gardens are a form of non-renewable wealth, an inheritance of special historic value. The second feature associated with humanized plant landscapes is the practice of evaluating the quality of urban temple landscapes within the environment [2]. Plants are one of the four major elements of a garden landscape [3], and the main element when it comes to constructing an urban temple landscape. Plants can play a role in “greening up” and beautification, and can divide and strengthen spaces, helping to set the atmosphere in urban temple gardens, which can directly affect the experience of tourists [4]. Western scholars clarified the study of ancient oriental gardens in books such as “A Study of Oriental Gardens” by William
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